Britain Today

[Kenzo1]

The UK health service has started to promote first-cousins marriages, classic ming that they are linked to: “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”  


First-cousin marriages has ‘benefits’, says NHS guidance despite birth defect risk


NHS Battles Rise In Inbreeding-Related Consequences As MPs Mull Banning First-Cousin Marriages


Got to support those Pakistani traditions eh .....

[727Sky]

Might as well make marrying a 6 year old legal while they are at it so all can follow in Muhammad's perfect foot steps.

 Let more in and watch the continued destruction of a society built upon centuries of customs and science disappear.

[Bally002]

The UK health service has started to promote first-cousins marriages, classic ming that they are linked to: “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”  


First-cousin marriages has ‘benefits’, says NHS guidance despite birth defect risk


NHS Battles Rise In Inbreeding-Related Consequences As MPs Mull Banning First-Cousin Marriages


Got to support those Pakistani traditions eh .....

Flamin Spastics.

[BIAD]

Another example of terrifyingly-weakened country holding its ankles and hoping the public don't
hear of the dry-reaming it daily takes.

Fury at tax perks for mosques which ‘preach men can beat their wives’

The National Secular Society highlighted cases where religion was being used to justify misogyny.


Where the rules are based of being unable to keep it in their pants.

'A shocking new report has revealed that mosques and churches are being awarded tax relief while
preaching that it is acceptable for a man to hit his wife. The National Secular Society (NSS) has
claimed that religious charities are promoting misogynistic beliefs at the same time they receive
public grants and funding. The report highlights examples including an imam who told his mosque
that men were allowed to abuse their wives if she refused to have sex.

Another Islamic leader in the UK also said women who wore make-up were "destroyed" and a
sermon publicly questioned online if wives should be allowed to work. The NSS is now calling
on a change in the law to prevent religious organisations that promote misogyny from having
a charitable status.

An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre in Birmingham was one example used in the report
after a YouTube video, uploaded last year, showed lecturer Mahamed AbdurRazaq claiming
men could beat their wives for refusing sex.

Despite The Charity Commission suspending AbdurRazaq from speaking at further engagements,
he was hosted numerous times at Green Lanes mosque after the incident. The report also cited
cases of sexist attitudes from Christian organisations which includes a baptist preacher saying
a wife should “submit to her husband’s leadership”. He also references religious text as evidence
that a wife was the “weaker partner”.

Rosyth Baptist Church in Fife was an example used where its YouTube account posted a video
of a pastor citing scripture saying “a husband is the head of his wife”. He added that a wife “that
submits to her husband’s leadership and respects him is easier to love”.

Megan Manson, author of the report titled Mission and Misogyny, and head of campaigns at NSS,
told The Times: “While religious groups should be free to advance their faith, their charitable status
gives them access to extensive tax benefits, which in these cases amounts to indirect state support
of misogyny through public money.”

19 examples of misogyny in mosques and churches were highlighted in the NSS report – 12 of
which involved Muslim charities and nine were Christian. A spokesman for An-Noor Masjid and
Community Centre told the newspaper: “An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre submitted a
full report on this matter to the Charity Commission over a year ago.
The issue has been fully addressed and resolved.

“Our charity provides vital support to the wider community, plays a crucial role in strengthening
social cohesion, and fosters compassion across society. We remain fully committed to
complying with all UK laws and regulations.”...'

Archived Express Article:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The UK health service has started to promote first-cousins marriages, classic ming that they are linked to: “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”  


First-cousin marriages has ‘benefits’, says NHS guidance despite birth defect risk


NHS Battles Rise In Inbreeding-Related Consequences As MPs Mull Banning First-Cousin Marriages


Got to support those Pakistani traditions eh .....

Dr. Nash said it best...



First-cousin marriage has ‘benefits’, says NHS guidance despite birth defect risk


I ask again, What the hell is going on over in the UK?

Freemasons swear an oath of loyalty to the organisation and to supporting fellow members. The Met does not currently collect information about how many officers are masons and has never banned officers from joining.

Scotland Yard said concerns had been raised by officers and staff about the impact membership might have on “investigations, promotions and misconduct”.

Existing declarable associations include people with criminal convictions, those dismissed from policing and people in some professions such as private investigation or journalism. Officers and staff have to declare any association with an individual or group that might compromise their integrity or damage the reputation of the force.

The Freemasons move was recommended by the 2021 independent panel report on the force’s handling of the unsolved 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan. The private detective, 37, was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London.

Several inquiries over the decades unearthed allegations of corruption. The 2021 report said officers’ membership of the Freemasons had been “a source of recurring suspicion and mistrust in the investigations”.

Cmdr Simon Messinger, of the Met, said: “We are now consulting on a proposal to add to that list involvement in Freemasonry – and potentially other organisations that could call impartiality into question or give rise to conflict of loyalties – and are keen to hear the views of our officers and staff.

“This does not prevent any member of staff joining the Freemasons or another similar organisation, but it means we will know who is a part of it. Strengthening the trust both our own staff and London’s communities have in the Met is a core part of our New Met for London plan and ambitions.”

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is responsible for setting the strategic direction of policing in the capital, has previously ruled out a compulsory register of freemasonry in the Met, saying it could go against officers’ human rights.

Senior officers will discuss the proposed policy change with the United Grand Lodge of England, the headquarters of Freemasonry in England and Wales.

The consultation, involving officers and staff, the Police Federation and other representative bodies, will seek views on the move.

Until now the Met had viewed the existing policy on declarable associations as sufficient. The force said it continued to receive intelligence reports and general expressions of concern from officers and staff who worried about the impact that membership of such an organisation could be having on investigations, promotions and misconduct.

While the number of such reports was low, they had to be taken seriously, the force said.

Met considers making officers declare whether they are Freemasons

I read the article and I still don't understand if they're suggesting there's a secret cabal of Freemasons running the Metropolitan Police, or not.

Meanwhile, other bigger issue...

[gortex]

Another Bell Hotel resident going to prison before he goes home.

A man who assaulted four people at the asylum hotel where he was a resident has been jailed for 16 weeks.
Mohammed Sharwarq, who has signed paperwork to return to Syria, was staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, at the time of the offences between 25 July and 12 August.

The 32-year-old had been due to stand trial for sexual assault, after allegedly kissing a man on the back of the neck, but prosecutors discontinued the matter, Chelmsford Magistrates' Court heard

https://news.sky.com/story/man-jailed-fo...t-13441648

[BIAD]

The reluctant dredging of those who walked between the raindrops goes on...

Ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang jailed for 35 years

'The ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang that used two teenage girls as "sex slaves" has been
sentenced for a range of sexual offences. Members of the gang expected sex wherever and whenever,
including in filthy flats, cars, car parks, alleyways, disused warehouses and on rancid mattresses,
a court heard.

Some of the men groomed the victims when they worked at an old market stall in the town, run by
Mohammed Zahid, 65, who was nicknamed "Boss Man". A court previously heard that Zahid felt he
was "almost untouchable" and gave free underwear from his lingerie stall to both girls, along with
money, alcohol and food in return for the expectation of regular sex with him and his friends.


Mohammed Zahid has today been sentenced to 35 years in jail.

Zahid, from Crumpsall, Manchester, denied the allegations but was previously found guilty of 20
offences, including rape, indecency with a child, and attempting to procure a girl into having unlawful
sexual intercourse. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

A further six men denied wrongdoing, but a jury unanimously found them guilty. The men, who were
also sentenced on Wednesday, are:


(Clockwise) Mushtaq Ahmed, Mohammed Zahid, Kasir Bashir, Nisar Hussain, Mohammed Shahzad,
Naheem Akram and Roheez Khan.

• Kasir Bashir, 50, from Oldham, who was found guilty of four offences, including rape and
indecency with a child. He was sentenced to 29 years in absence - he fled the UK before trial;

• Mushtaq Ahmed, 67, from Oldham, who was found guilty of nine offences, including rape and
indecency with a child. He was jailed for 27 years;

• Roheez Khan, 39, from Rochdale, who was found guilty of one offence of rape.
He was jailed for 12 years;

• Mohammed Shahzad, 44, from Rochdale, who was found guilty of six offences, including rape
and assault by penetration. He was jailed for 26 years;

• Nisar Hussain, 41, from Rochdale, who was found guilty of three offences, including rape and
assault by penetration. He was jailed for 19 years;

• Naheem Akram, 48, from Rochdale, who was found guilty of seven offences, including rape
and assault by penetration. He was jailed for 26 years.

Survivor was 'failed woefully', judge says
Handing sentence on Wednesday, Judge Jonathan Seely said "both girls were highly vulnerable, both had
deeply troubled backgrounds and were known to the authorities". He added: "They were highly susceptible
to the advances of these men and others, and both were sexually abused by numerous other men.

"They were passed around for sex - abused, humiliated, degraded and then discarded. Both were seriously
let down by those whose job it was to protect them." He said Girl B was "failed woefully" and noted how she
was "chillingly described" in a social services document as having prostituted herself at 10 years old.

'He felt almost untouchable'
Prosecutor Rossano Scamardella KC told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that Zahid's offending
"centred around his stall, which allowed him to meet many girls who he groomed and later introduced to
others". "[Girl B] was in the care system for most of her young life, and Mohammed Zahid knew about that,"
he said.

"It got to a stage where he was confident that nothing would be done about it, and he would ring the care
home and would also go there to pick her up and drop her off. "Such was the brazen way he did this that
by the end of the abuse, he felt almost untouchable. It's not as if she had no one to turn to. She turned to
the care home. She turned to social services. "She felt able to tell them at some stages, or other people
did, and nothing was done. People knew, authorities knew. And nothing was done."

Both victims, who were 13 at the start of the abuse and came from "troubled home lives", gave evidence
in front of the men who committed the crimes. The abusers were found guilty in June of 50 sexual offences
that occurred between 2001 and 2006. The jury heard, during a four-month trial, that the men preyed on their
vulnerabilities. One said the abusers had "destroyed my life" in a statement read out before the sentencing.

'Finally plucked up the courage to approach police'
On Monday, in a statement read out by Mr Scamardella, she said: "My life has been destroyed from the
abuse of these men. "The abuse has affected every part of my life, from what I look like, relationships, health,
to my mental health. "Over the last 10 years, when I finally plucked up the courage to approach the police and
disclose the abuse I suffered, it has been an absolute emotional rollercoaster for me.

"I have provided about 40 video interviews, having to speak about what I was subjected to, talking about it out
loud and explaining it in detail. "This has been and still is consuming my life. I hope that one day I will be able
to move forward with my life. "The jury finding these men guilty, I hope, is going to help me take another step
forward to get my life back, as I have already lost my childhood. And now, because of the case, I'm losing part
of my adult life, continually revisiting the abuse of my childhood."

'I have never been able to move on'
Girl B read her victim personal statement from the witness box, and urged other victims to come forward to
the police. She said: "I coped with what these men did to me, as at the time I believed that every man I came
into contact with would expect sex. It is horrific that I didn't know any different. "My way of coping was to block
out most of what had been done to me. I have felt shame and guilt all my life for what these men did.

"My life has been on hold for the last 20 years, I have never been able to move on from the abuse. "Before the
CSE [child sexual exploitation] team came to me I had no faith in the police, but meeting someone who believed
and understood everything meant I could trust for the first time. "It is important that people know that the team
who have worked on my case have been amazing. People in the press and social media have told victims of
CSE not to go to the police. This is wrong.

"I want these victims to know that if they feel ready to deal with what happened to them they shouldn't wait,
they should go to the CSE team because they will do a good job. "It doesn't matter how much time has gone
by, it is still possible to get justice. The day I watched the verdicts changed my life, I instantly had a massive
weight lifted off me and I now feel like I can live my life. I do not need to feel ashamed, and I have already
started that process."

Survivors showed 'enormous' courage
In a statement released after sentencing, Greater Manchester Police Detective Chief Inspector Guy Laycock
praised the two survivors as "pivotal in bringing these abusers to long-awaited justice". "Without them," he said,
"this would not be possible and today is about them." He then said the seven men carried out the abuse for "their
own depraved sexual gain", adding: "They had a callous disregard for these women when they were girls and
continue to show no remorse for their unforgivable actions all these years later."

The Crown Prosecution Service's Liz Fell also praised the survivors, showing they "have shown an enormous
amount of strength and dignity". She added: "The trauma these women have carried for decades cannot be
understated. I hope they can find some comfort in knowing that their voices have finally been heard."

And Sharon Hubber, director of children's services at Rochdale Borough Council, said that "what these men
did to those innocent young girls was vile and they rightfully deserve to be behind bars for a long time".
"Today's sentencing is a reminder of our ongoing commitment, alongside Greater Manchester Police, in
bringing these perpetrators to justice and we will not stop here in our efforts," she said...'

Archived Sky News Article:

[gortex]

The government has given their tone deaf response to the petition which now stands at 2,737,565 signatures.

The Government has announced plans to introduce a digital ID system which is fit for the needs of modern Britain. We are committed to making people’s everyday lives easier and more secure, to putting more control in their hands (including over their own data), and to driving growth through harnessing digital technology. We also want to learn from countries which have digitised government services for the benefit of their citizens, in line with our manifesto commitment to modernise government.
Currently, when UK citizens and residents use public services, start a new job, or, for example, buy alcohol, they often need to present an assortment of physical documents to prove who they are or things about themselves. This is both bureaucratic for the individual and creates space for abuse and fraud. This includes known issues with illegal working and modern slavery, while the fragmented approach and multiple systems across Government make it difficult for people to access vital services. Further, there are too many people who are excluded, like the 1 in 10 UK adults who don’t have a physical photo ID, so can struggle to prove who they are and access the products and services they are entitled to.

To tackle these interlinked issues, we will introduce a new national digital ID. This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free to all UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over (although we will consider through consultation if this should be age 13 and over). Over time, people will be able to use it to seamlessly access a range of public and private sector services, with the aim of making our everyday lives easier and more secure. It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.
For example, the new digital ID will build on GOV.UK One Login and the GOV.UK Wallet to drive the transformation of public services. Over time, this system will allow people to access government services – such as benefits or tax records – without needing to remember multiple logins or provide physical documents. It will significantly streamline interactions with the state, saving time and reducing frustrating paperwork, while also helping to create opportunities for more joined up government services. International examples show how beneficial this can be. For instance, Estonia’s system reportedly saves each citizen hours every month by streamlining unnecessary bureaucracy, and the move to becoming a digital society has saved taxpayer money.

By the end of this Parliament, employers will have to check the new digital ID when conducting a ‘right to work’ check. This will help combat criminal gangs who promise access to the UK labour market in order to profit from dangerous and illegal channel crossings. It will create a fairer system between UK citizens and legal residents, crack down on forged documents, and streamline the process for employers, driving up compliance. Further, it will create business information showing where employers are conducting checks, so driving more targeted action against non-compliant employers.

For clarity, it will not be a criminal offence to not hold a digital ID and police will not be able to demand to see a digital ID as part of a “stop and search.”

Privacy and security will also be central to the digital ID programme. We will follow data protection law and best practice in creating a system which people can rightly put their trust in. People in the UK already know and trust digital credentials held in their phone wallets to use in their everyday lives, from paying for things to storing boarding passes. The new system will be built on similar technology and be your boarding pass to government. Digitally checkable digital credentials are more secure than physical documents which can be lost, copied or forged, and often mean sharing more information than just what is necessary for a given transaction.
The new system will be designed in accordance with the highest security standards to protect against a comprehensive range of threats, including cyber-attacks.

We will launch a public consultation in the coming weeks and work closely with employers, trade unions, civil society groups and other stakeholders, to co-design the scheme and ensure it is as secure and inclusive as possible. Following consultation, we will seek to bring forward legislation to underpin this system.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

So this is the hill they've chosen to die on , so be it.

The Welsh Assembly election is next May along with Council elections "postponed" from last year (unless they postpone them again).

Latest voter intention poll from yougov for the Welsh Assembly , which Labour have held since its inception in 1998.

Plaid Cymru 30%
Reform UK 29%
Labour 14%
Conservative 11%


Couldn't happen to a nastier bloke.

[Ninurta]

The "(non-) response" utterly failed to address some key concerns - well, key concerns for me, anyhow. How are these digital ID's to be carried and presented? The only mention I saw was something they euphemistically called a "phone wallet" I have a phone, and I have a wallet - but I'll be damned if I'm gonna rip the phone off the wall and try to cram it into a wallet or try to carry it around, and it appears from the announcement that unless I do that, I would be excluded from government services and benefits, or any interaction with government at all. It seems a supremely cumbersome way to live, having to lug a phone around everywhere I go. Those things are bulky and ungainly, but I suppose they might come in handy at times, like to beat recalcitrant civil servants about the head and shoulders with.

They said this system will be "more secure", but completely failed to mention HOW they are supposed to be "more secure". Can someone steal my total being simply by running past me and grabbing that big-assed bulky phone out of my hands? If not, WHY not?

I do not have a "smart phone". Does that mean that if/when this scheme comes to pass, I become a "non-person" in the eyes of government? Can government still arrest me if I no longer exist to them? What is the mechanism for arresting someone who is not there to be arrested? So can I embark on a life of crime with impunity simply by not getting a "smart phone"? I mean, without access to government services or benefits, the time will eventually come when I MUST embark on a life of crime simply to survive. But if, according to the government, I do not exist, am not "there", what the hell are they gonna do about that when it comes time for an arrest? How do you handcuff a ghost?

It's hard to believe they are serious about this, and even harder to believe they've bothered to think it through. Since lack of a "smart phone" is a poor people / old people problem, I reckon lack of digital ID, which sounds like it will amount to a lack of existence, will by extension also just be poor people / old people problems.... and, really, it's only the poor people / old people who have to worry about government recognition when it comes time to get paid.

Maybe this is really just a scheme to streamline (i.e. "eliminate") government payments, and save the government some big bucks so they can buy their bureaucratic dachas on the Black Sea for their retirements.


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[727Sky]

I usually say let more in what could go wrong (sarc) but... IMO it is to late without a major change in policing and government policies..

[Bally002]

Happening in Australia this weekend, (Holiday weekend) at the Opera house.

Aussie flags banned.

I won't succumb to this crap.

The cowards will have to cut my throat first. 

Useless pawns.  (coppers)

To think I used to be a copper.
 Ashamed.

Bally

[gortex]

The dream is over the Kingdom of Kubala has been dismantled.

THIS is the moment the ‘king’ and handmaiden of the so-called Kingdom of Kubala tribe were detained in an early morning raid.
Kofi Offeh and Kaura Taylor were nabbed by authorities in their camp in the woods of Jedbrah, Roxbrahshire, just after 8am on Thursday.
The duo were escorted out of the woods after an operation that involved cops, sheriff officers and eight members of the immigration team.
The Scottish Sun can confirm that Offeh has been arrested on suspicion of overstaying, while it remains unclear the reason for Taylor’s arrest.

Kaura Taylor is reported as a missing person from the US which is no doubt why she was taken into custody.

[BIAD]

It's like warning children not to play with matches and then listen to them whine about how burnt they are.
But I guess they've got to learn.

Mahmood: ‘Dark forces running amok’ as synagogue attack raises wider questions

'The attack on the Manchester synagogue raises deep questions about community relations in the UK,
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said. She warned that there were “malign and dark forces running
amok across our country”, with antisemitism and “other forms of hatred” on the rise...'

(More in Link)

[gortex]

1 minute time-lapse , a warning through art.

The piece is a warning about the potential future implications of adopting digital ID cards in the UK. Keir Starmer announced the plans - which were not part of the Labour manifesto - so he is the figurehead for the design.
George Orwell's famous novel 1984, paints a vision of a dystopian future. I chose it as a quick and easy to draw reference.

The piece was drawn on Sunday 28th September and took less than 3 hours.
I think it went over a lot of people's heads to be honest, but such is art.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Best expect the thought police at your door , Comrade.

[Ninurta]

It's like warning children not to play with matches and then listen to them whine about how burnt they are.
But I guess they've got to learn.

Mahmood: ‘Dark forces running amok’ as synagogue attack raises wider questions

'The attack on the Manchester synagogue raises deep questions about community relations in the UK,
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said. She warned that there were “malign and dark forces running
amok across our country”, with antisemitism and “other forms of hatred” on the rise...'

(More in Link)

The problem is, they DON'T learn. They just keep on doing the same thing over and over and over again, always acting as if they expect a different result... and we all know what THAT is a sign of...

P.S. - those "dark and malign forces" she speaks of... could those possibly be... ISLAMIC in nature? Ever since I left Islam lo, those many years ago, I have maintained that the god they worship is the same one the Christians call "Satan" or "Abaddon", or possibly an obscure Arabian Moon god from long ago, which just amounts to yet another desert demon or djinn. It don't get much darker or more malign than that!

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[Bally002]

1 minute time-lapse , a warning through art.

The piece is a warning about the potential future implications of adopting digital ID cards in the UK. Keir Starmer announced the plans - which were not part of the Labour manifesto - so he is the figurehead for the design.
George Orwell's famous novel 1984, paints a vision of a dystopian future. I chose it as a quick and easy to draw reference.

The piece was drawn on Sunday 28th September and took less than 3 hours.
I think it went over a lot of people's heads to be honest, but such is art.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Best expect the thought police at your door , Comrade.

Amazingly clever.

Put a mini-me moe on Starmer and he'd look like Hitler.

Did the artist get arrested?

Bally.

[gortex]

Did the artist get arrested?

Don't know mate but in the Country at this time if it were me I'd be expecting a knock at the door.

The guy has got talent though 

[BIAD]

My amazement of their inability to understand what the London Mayor's type of multiculturism brings,
will never cease to increase!

The disgusting fatberg weighing same as 8 double-decker buses that was blocking
a West London sewer

'A blockage estimated to weigh a horrifying 100 tonnes has been cleared from a West London sewer.
It took a team of Thames Water specialists - wearing gas monitors for their own safety - more than
a month to remove the fatberg that was more than 10 metres below street level in Feltham.


Er... Yuk!

The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease, and was equivalent
weight of eight double-decker buses. The team had to access the sewer through a large manhole chamber
to then blast, chisel and suck the blockage out from along 125 metres of pipes. The waste was then craned
into skips and taken to landfill, Thames Water said.

Alexander Dudfield, engagement lead for network protection at Thames Water, said: "The clearance of this
fatberg was hugely complex for our team of engineers and shows some of the challenges we face. But while
some blockages in our biggest sewers can weigh as much as 25 elephants, we must not forget most blockages
occur in local pipes – often narrower than a mobile phone and usually caused by a few households.

"When these pipes get blocked, we can't simply switch off the sewage. It backs up and must come out
somewhere, whether that's roads, rivers or even people's homes. The consequences can be devastating."

It comes weeks after the Port of London Authority, local environment group Thames21 and Thames Water
collaborated to remove a bank of wet wipes that had settled and congealed into sludge on a curve of the
River Thames by Hammersmith Bridge in West London. The utility company continues to call on members
of the public to avoid flushing wet wipes and waste other than toilet paper.

Wet wipes are often the cause of blockages across Thames Water's sewer network, with the company
saying it clears 75,000 blockages a year, often caused by wipes, and removes some 3.8 million annually
in operations that cost £18 million.

So far this year, Thames Water said it has cleared 28,899 rag blockages, which were primarily made up
of wet wipes, 14,810 fat, oil and grease blockages and 686 third party blockages, made up of concrete
and other sewer-blocking materials...'

MyLondon Article:

[gortex]

A few weeks ago street artist "Banksy" left an artwork at The Royal Courts of Justice in London , their Lordships were so angered by the artwork it was destroyed forthwith , destroying art because you don't like what it says is in my view akin to burning books because you don't like the message they give , wholly unacceptable in a Democracy.

The gentleman who created the artwork in sand in the video I posted above recreated Banksy's critique of our British Justice system for those who missed the original.
 

If you don't like the message don't do the crime.

[F2d5thCav]

My amazement of their inability to understand what the London Mayor's type of multiculturism brings,
will never cease to increase!

The disgusting fatberg weighing same as 8 double-decker buses that was blocking
a West London sewer

'A blockage estimated to weigh a horrifying 100 tonnes has been cleared from a West London sewer.
It took a team of Thames Water specialists - wearing gas monitors for their own safety - more than
a month to remove the fatberg that was more than 10 metres below street level in Feltham.


Er... Yuk!

The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease, and was equivalent
weight of eight double-decker buses. The team had to access the sewer through a large manhole chamber
to then blast, chisel and suck the blockage out from along 125 metres of pipes. The waste was then craned
into skips and taken to landfill, Thames Water said.

Alexander Dudfield, engagement lead for network protection at Thames Water, said: "The clearance of this
fatberg was hugely complex for our team of engineers and shows some of the challenges we face. But while
some blockages in our biggest sewers can weigh as much as 25 elephants, we must not forget most blockages
occur in local pipes – often narrower than a mobile phone and usually caused by a few households.

"When these pipes get blocked, we can't simply switch off the sewage. It backs up and must come out
somewhere, whether that's roads, rivers or even people's homes. The consequences can be devastating."

It comes weeks after the Port of London Authority, local environment group Thames21 and Thames Water
collaborated to remove a bank of wet wipes that had settled and congealed into sludge on a curve of the
River Thames by Hammersmith Bridge in West London. The utility company continues to call on members
of the public to avoid flushing wet wipes and waste other than toilet paper.

Wet wipes are often the cause of blockages across Thames Water's sewer network, with the company
saying it clears 75,000 blockages a year, often caused by wipes, and removes some 3.8 million annually
in operations that cost £18 million.

So far this year, Thames Water said it has cleared 28,899 rag blockages, which were primarily made up
of wet wipes, 14,810 fat, oil and grease blockages and 686 third party blockages, made up of concrete
and other sewer-blocking materials...'

MyLondon Article:

Gawd.  It ... it ... it's ALIVE!

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Note for BIAD.

On some Mediterranean islands, the hotels specifically instruct guests NOT to flush used toilet paper.  Instead it is simply placed in the wastebasket.  To avoid "fatbergs" (more like turd-bergs IMO), I suppose.

One can imagine the smell if those wastebaskets are not in air conditioned rooms.  That implies there must be entire dumps filled with soiled toilet paper.  Bet the flies etc. congregate there like its Africa v2.0.